I believe an unlikely mix of alleged drug trafficking related politicos and alleged white nationalist related politicos united to elect the infamous “Bloc of Four” in the abysmal voter turnout election of 2005. During their four year term the drug business was good again and white nationalists used Coatesville as an example on white supremacist websites like “Stormfront”. Strong community organization and support from law enforcement, in particular Chester County District Attorney Joseph W. Carroll has begun to turn our community around. The Chester County drug trafficking that I believe centers on Coatesville continues and I believe we still have public officials in place that profit from the drug sales. But the people here are amazing and continue to work against the odds to make Coatesville a good place to live.
Staff at the Chester County Office of Voter Services continue a formal hand recount of the ballots cast in the tight race for the 156th Legislative District seat between apparent winner West Chester Mayor Carolyn Comitta and current state Rep. Dan Truitt of East Goshen.
According to a statement from the county, the recount began Tuesday afternoon, and will continue until completion, now estimated to be by the end of the week. The recount will be witnessed by the candidates in each race or their representative attorneys, as well as appointed representatives from each candidate. The press and the public, however, are not permitted in the area of the county’s Government Services Center where it is taking place."
"When Donald Trump claimed, 'the election's going to be rigged,' he wasn't entirely wrong. But the threat was not, as Trump warned, from Americans committing the crime of 'voting many, many times.' What's far more likely to undermine democracy in November is the culmination of a decade-long Republican effort to disenfranchise voters under the guise of battling voter fraud. The latest tool: Election officials in more than two dozen states have compiled lists of citizens whom they allege could be registered in more than one state – thus potentially able to cast multiple ballots – and eligible to be purged from the voter rolls.
The data is processed through a system called the Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck Program, which is being promoted by a powerful Republican operative, and its lists of potential duplicate voters are kept confidential. But Rolling Stone obtained a portion of the list and the names of 1 million targeted voters. According to our analysis, the Crosscheck list disproportionately threatens solid Democratic constituencies: young, black, Hispanic and Asian-American voters – with some of the biggest possible purges underway in Ohio and North Carolina, two crucial swing states with tight Senate races.
Like all weapons of vote suppression, Crosscheck is a response to the imaginary menace of mass voter fraud. In the mid-2000s, after the Florida-recount debacle, the Bush administration launched a five-year investigation into the allegedly rampant crime but found scant evidence of wrongdoing. Still, the GOP has perpetuated the myth in every national election since. Recently, North Carolina Board of Elections chief Kim Strach testified to her legislature that 35,750 voters are "registered in North Carolina and another state and voted in both in the 2012 general election." [Editor’s note: This quote was taken from the power point that accompanied Strach’s testimony. In a subsequent letter, she informed us that during her presentation she "stressed that we were not suggesting that 35,750 voters had committed any type of fraud. My testimony was that the data we received from the Crosscheck Program showed that in the 2012 general election, there were 35,750 people who voted in North Carolina whose first and last names and dates of birth matched persons who voted in the same election in another state.”] Yet despite hiring an ex-FBI agent to lead the hunt, the state has charged exactly zero double voters from the Crosscheck list. Nevertheless, tens of thousands face the loss of their ability to vote – all for the sake of preventing a crime that rarely happens. So far, Crosscheck has tagged an astonishing 7.2 million suspects, yet we found no more than four perpetrators who have been charged with double voting or deliberate double registration.
Will an anti-voter-fraud program designed by one of Trump's advisers deny tens of thousands their right to vote in November?
August 24, 2016
Also see:
JIM CROW RETURNS MILLIONS OF MINORITIES THREATENED BY ELECTORAL PURGE Former Republican Chester County Commissioner now Secretary of State Carol Aichele administers Pennsylvania's CROSS CHECK PROGRAM.
It’s Jim Crow all over again," says the Rev. Joseph Lowery, who cofounded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with Martin Luther King, Jr. Lowery, now 93, says he recognizes in the list of threatened voters a sophisticated new form of an old and tired tactic. “I think [the Republicans] would use anything they can find. Their desperation is rising.”
About one half of the "audience" - "page views" on my "CoatesvilleDems Blog" came from former Soviet Bloc nations for several months until about 10 days before the election. I'm not sure when it began.
I wrote this June 12, 2016:
Now and then I get a spike in my stats from Coatesville Dems Blog from a Russian "Audience". It seems to coincide with posts on domestic terrorism.
There are a few connections between U.S. & Russian extremists. But not of much significance. But could it be people hiding their identity?
I don't know how to or even if I can identify a viewer of my blog.
I usually don’t check my stats. Sometime in September I noticed a doubling of page views. I thought it was because of the coming elections. A few weeks later I looked under “Audience” and found that about 1/2 of the “page views” came from former Soviet Bloc nations.
I knew that teenage science wizard hackers that attack Western corporations are viewed as as national heroes in former Soviet countries. See:
I was skeptical of the claim that Russian Intelligence was involved in manipulating our elections.
I’m not so sure now.
The countries where my blog is viewed are under "Audience" in Google Stats. For about 3 months it would be something like, 1636 page views per week - United States and 1600 page views for Ukraine and Russia. The other countries would make up about 100 page views. The page views for Ukraine and Russia dropped like a switch was thrown a few weeks before the election. I’m not sure when the Eastern Bloc stuff began.
There has been a recent uptick in views from former Soviet Bloc nations:
I post about local political corruption, organized crime and extremists.
I have some connections to U.S. intelligence and friends with top secret clearance. I’m a Democratic Committee person. I have friends connected to the peace movement in Philadelphia during the Vietnam War. I am in no way a big player of any sort, but somebody in the intelligence community could probably gather all that and might assume I have some sort of valuable information.
AS YOU CAN SEE BY THIS SCREEN SHOT FROM A FEW MOMENTS AGO, OF TODAY'S (GMT) DATA. FORMER SOVIET BLOC NATIONS ARE BACK NEAR THE TOP OF MY PAGE VIEWS BY COUNTRIES.
Why the relationships between Russia and President Elect Trump are so very important at this moment:
"Yet, at least outside of political fiction, there has probably never been a better election for electors to go against what their states’ voters wanted.Recent revelations by the Central Intelligence Agency that Russia actively engaged in this very close election to advantage Trump, and that Russia maintains leverage over him with unreleased information, call into question the legitimacy of a Trump presidency. Add to that Trump’s erratic and destructive behavior over the past month, the fact that nearly three million more voters preferred his opponent to him, his work to undermine relations with China, the fact that he considers his own uninformed opinions about international security superior to the evaluations of the nation’s intelligence agencies, and the near certainty that he’d be in violation of the Constitution’s emoluments clause on the day he is sworn in, and you really don’t get a more appropriate opportunity for Republican electors to rethink their states’ choice."
It would be a highly unusual move, but that doesn’t mean it’s necessarily a bad idea.
By Seth Masket
"Here are two of political history’s great constants: first, countries meddling in the internal affairs of others (both enemies and “friends”); and, second, bogus charges from a faction in one country that foreigners are meddling in its internal affairs to help another faction. Both are poison for any country that wishes to rule itself. So if we’re serious about being a self-governing republic, we have to demand that President Obama declassify as much intelligence as possible that Russia may have intervened in the 2016 presidential election. Taking Donald Trump’s position — that we should just ignore the question of Russian hacking and “move on” — would be a disaster. Relying on a hazy war of leaks from the CIA, FBI, various politicians, and their staff is an equally terrible idea. A congressional investigation would be somewhat better, but that would take years — like the investigations of the intelligence on Iraq and weapons of mass destruction — and would be fatally compromised by the Democrats’ political timidity and GOP opposition. The only path forward that makes sense is for Obama to order the release of as much evidence as possible underlying the reported “high confidence” of U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia both intervened in the election and did so with the intention of aiding Trump’s candidacy."
I have no doubt that Donald Trump's Whitehouse is a white nationalist fascist Whitehouse. Stasi America begins.
"Welcome to the Fourth Reich." - HARRY BELAFONTE
"This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.
AMY GOODMAN: We turn to the legendary musician and actor Harry Belafonte, who was also speaking at Democracy Now!'s 20th anniversary celebration. For more than half a century, Belafonte has been deeply involved in the fight for social justice. One of Dr. Martin Luther King's closest confidants, he held organize the March on Washington in 1963. Harry Belafonte spoke last night at Riverside Church, the same location where Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King came out against the Vietnam War a year before his death. In 1967, he spoke.
HARRY BELAFONTE: In a few weeks from now, if there is a platform on which I will be privileged to stand and speak, my opening remarks will probably be something like "Welcome to the Fourth Reich." I was talking with a comrade recently. He was a victim of the Third Reich. He was a victim of the great Holocaust and what happened to the Jewish people during the reign of Hitler. And all my life I have committed myself to making sure that here, this country, not for the want of effort, but I and so many others would be forever committed to the idea that America will remain an open and a free and a democratic society. With each cycle, those thoughts become a bit dimmed. Now, I think, more than ever, we are in need of Democracy Now!
I’m just at the threshold of my 90th year, and I had often—who said that? I never thought I’d live this long, but to be able to share an evening with Danny Glover, and certainly with Noam Chomsky, for whom I have great affection and deep respect, that I can kind of dance out of here feeling like, well, I did it all. But, in a way, each time it was done, we kind of figured it was the last time we would have to do it. During a lifetime of Paul Robeson, Eleanor Roosevelt, Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois, those who mentored me and guided me and inspired me, that I should have lived long enough to be able to stand here and once again say thanks to all my colleagues, to all of my comrades, to all of the people who have sacrificed so greatly to make this nation whole—we are looking upon a curious time. But I think it’s a time that should be used as an opportunity to know that we have to make a much bigger difference than we’ve made up to now. We should not let the current state of affairs dull the fact that all that we have done was worthless. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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"Civil rights leaders at a news conference at the National Press Club urged President-elect Donald Trump to denounce acts of hate in the U.S. Speakers included representatives from the National Council of La Raza, Muslim Advocates, the American Federation of Teachers, and the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. Southern Poverty Law Center President Richard Cohen outlined two recent reports by his organization that document recent hate incidents and discrimination against students following the presidential election.":
"To the U.S.A. Commander of the encircled town of Bastogne.
The fortune of war is changing. This time the U.S.A. forces in and near Bastogne have been encircled by strong German armored units. More German armored units have crossed the river Our near Ortheuville, have taken Marche and reached St. Hubert by passing through Hompre-Sibret-Tillet. Libramont is in German hands.
There is only one possibility to save the encircled U.S.A. troops from total annihilation: that is the honorable surrender of the encircled town. In order to think it over a term of two hours will be granted beginning with the presentation of this note.
If this proposal should be rejected one German Artillery Corps and six heavy A. A. Battalions are ready to annihilate the U.S.A. troops in and near Bastogne. The order for firing will be given immediately after this two hours term.
All the serious civilian losses caused by this artillery fire would not correspond with the well-known American humanity.
Back home pro-Nazi Republicans wanted President Roosevelt and the U.S. Army to surrender.
Sorry Republicans, but your political party has a long time sordid history of affiliations with Nazis and Nazi Germany. Maybe Trump is the first
American President to have an openly Nazi ‘Senior Advisor”, Steve Bannon. But he’s
certainly not the first Nazi leaning American President. Nazis and Republicans have intertwined since the beginnings of the Nazi Party, before Hitler became Germany's leader.
“This
site is dedicated to those fallen heroes, who arouse from among their
countrymen to battle right wing tyranny and its triad of support hate, racism
and poverty. They came from all walks of life: farmers, labors, ministers and
students, all had so much to give, all were idealists, and all were killed for
menacing the tyrants grasp on power. For this society will be forever indebted
and grateful to them. The very freedoms that we enjoy today, only came about
through their efforts.
Today as
a nation we face the greatest threats to democracy and freedom than at anytime
in the past, the enemy is not from abroad but the enemy is from within. They
are the extremist and odious members of what passes for conservatives in
today's politics. They have attacked the very foundations of our government and
the institutions that have made it great. We have yielded far too much ground
in the 1980's our future freedoms depend upon stopping them now, we must fight
now.
I wrote
those first two paragraphs when the White Rose first appeared on the internet
over seven years ago. Today our cherished freedoms have been severely
restricted and curtailed by the illegitimate regime of George Bush. As a nation
we now stand on the brink of full-blown fascism. The Fourth Reich is rising
like a giant Phoenix from the ashes of 9-11. Reports of terrible atrocities and
war crimes committed by our armies in Afghanistan and Iraq have already
surfaced. Who will survive to bare witness if the Bush regime is not removed by
the upcoming election?”
White Rose the 4 Leaflets http://www.whiterosesociety.org/WRS_pamphlets_home.html
The White Rose (German: die Weiße Rose)
was a non-violent,
intellectualresistance group in Nazi Germany led by a
group of students and a professor at the University of
Munich. The group conducted an anonymous leaflet and graffiti
campaign which called for active opposition against the Nazi regime. Their
activities started in Munich
in June 1942, and ended with the arrest of the core group by the Gestapo in February 1943.
They, as well as other members and supporters of the group who carried on
distributing the pamphlets, faced unjust trials by the Nazi People's Court
(Volksgerichtshof), and many were sentenced to death or imprisonment.
With its pro-business agenda,
and the fascist views of the leaders of corporate America, the Republican Party
soon became laden with fascists.
Even before Hitler and the
Nazis seized power in Germany, the Nazis were already actively involved in
American politics and elections. Shockingly, the Nazis did not have to
infiltrate the party; many were already employed at high levels in the national
or state Republican Party organizations.
In October 1928, Edmond
Furholzer, a pro-Nazi publisher from Germantown, NY presented the New York
State Republican Committee with an offer that for twenty thousand dollars he
would deliver the German vote to Hoover. With Hoover's chances looking good,
and it being late in the campaign, Furholzer's offer was turned down.
Furholzer was hardly an
obscure Nazi, and was a leading figure in the hard right of Yorkville, a
heavily German neighborhood of Manhattan. The Republican State Committee
adopted many of Furholzer's proposals in 1928, and four years later, when
Hoover's chances were dismal; Furholzer's help was gladly accepted. In fact,
during the 1932 campaign, Furholzer worked endlessly for the Republican
National Committee, campaigning tirelessly for Hoover in New York State. He
smeared Roosevelt as the new Wilson, the man that had destroyed Germany.92
In 1933, Furholzer returned to Germany.
By 1934, the Nazis had only
been in power for less than a year, but already were active in placing their
agents or pro-Nazis into positions of power. On February 22, 1934, the
Republican Party merged their Senatorial and Congressional Campaign Committees
into a single organization independent of the Republican National Committee.
Senator Daniel Hastings of
Delaware and Representative Chester Bolton announced the merger. Just before
the merger, the two campaign committees hired Sidney Brooks, the long-time head
of research at International Telephone and Telegraph (ITT). ITT was one of many
American corporations that went to extraordinary means to continue trading with
the Nazis after war broke out.
Shortly after Brooks took
charge, he made a frantic visit to New York. On March 4, 1934, he went to Room
830 of the Hotel Edison, a room rented to a Mr. William Goodales of Los Angles.
Goodales was in fact William Dudley Pelly. The meeting concluded with an
agreement to merge the Order of 76 with the Silver Shirts. Later Brooks would
stop at 17 Battery Place, the address of the German Consulate General.
Brooks was a member of the
Order of 76, a pro-fascist group. The Order of 76 application required the
fingerprints of the proposed member, and certain details of their life. Brooks'
application revealed that he was the son of Nazi agent Colonel Edwin Emerson
and that he chose to use his mother's maiden name to conceal his father's
identity.80 Emerson was a major financial backer of Furholzer and
his paper.
Thus, as early as 1934, the
Republican Party was collaborating with Nazis and pro-fascist groups at a high
level. This would not be the last example of collaboration between high level
Republicans and Nazis, as the following headlines make clear.
On October 22, 1936, the New
York Post broke the following story.
Nazi
Publicist On G.O.P. Payroll
To
win votes for Landon and Bleakley, the Republican State Committee is employing
on its payroll a staff of propagandists identified with local Nazi
organizations, the Post learned today.78
On October 30, 1936, the New
York World-Telegram revealed additional details.
U.S. Nazi Attack on Jews
Is Laid to Republicans
Anti-Semitic Radio
Speeches by Griebl, Others sponsored by G.O.P
Fritz Kuhn Among Speakers
in Regular Broadcasts over WWRL
The
Republican Party had been sponsoring radio broadcasts by American Nazis to win
German votes, it was disclosed today. One of the recent speakers was Dr. Ignatz
T. Griebl a national Nazi leader and pronounced anti-Semitic…79
Perhaps the best summary of
this plot is a quote from a report to the German Foreign Ministry by the German
Ambassador Thomsen.
"Roosevelt's
prospects of being elected a third time have declined…3. The election campaign
maneuvers of John L. Lewis, chief of the CIO, and Senator Wheeler… Regarding 3.
At this juncture John L. Lewis enters the arena with approximately 8 to 10
million votes controlled by him. He is determined to make ruthless use of his
influence, and will do so in favor of strict isolationism. Lewis is pursuing
that policy not indeed because of any pro-German sentiments, but because he
fears that America's involvement in a war would mean the establishment of an
American dictatorship and the placing of his organization under emergency laws.
He is negotiating with Republicans at present and will support them in the
campaign if Willkie publicly declares himself for keeping America out of all
European conflicts. Lewis can throw his strength at will to Republicans or the
Democrats, but this much is certain that he surely will not use it for
Roosevelt. He may even, as he has already threaten to do, organize a third
party of disgruntled Democrats, the Peace party, and in the person of closely
allied Senator Wheeler put up a suitable candidate."99
While $5 million dollars
seems a trivial amount today in a presidential campaign, in 1940 the amount was
significant as the total expenditures by the Republican Party was slightly less
than $15 million.
Regardless of whether the
Nazis spent only $2 million or the full $5 million dollars, they were a major
source of campaign funds for the Republicans in 1940. While the total amount of
Nazis funds spent on the Republican 1940 campaign may never be known with any
certainty, from the funds recovered in the embassy raid it is clear that at
least $2 million was spent from the slush fund alone. Therefore the lower limit
is at least $2 million. In short, a major proportion ranging from 15% to over
33% of the Republican campaign funds in 1940 came directly from the Nazis.
Considering the fact the major industrialists were active supporters of the
Nazis and large donors to the Republican Party, well over 50% of the Republican
campaign funding in 1940 came either directly from Nazis in Berlin or those
within the United States.
Following the Nazis, Davis
likewise donated at least $48,000 to Willkie, bypassing the $5,000 federal
limit with several methods such as donating to individual state parties. Davis
also bankrolled the radio address of Lewis on October 21 in which Lewis
announced his support for Willkie. In late October, Davis forwarded copies of
his documents pertaining to his proposed peace plan to leaders of the
Republican Party including Willkie, former President Hoover, Sam Pryor and
Verne Marshall. Willkie decided not to use the material, fearing it might
backfire. In the end, labor chose to remain loyal to FDR and Roosevelt won the
election with 27 million votes to Willkie's 22 million.95
Moreover, the involvement of
the Nazis in the 1940 election extended beyond the monetary donations and the
bizarre plot of Davis. Top Republican leaders, including former President
Herbert Hoover closely collaborated with high-level Nazi officials in Berlin to
bring about the defeat of Roosevelt. Hoover's conniving with the Nazis in the
1940 election was confirmed in post-war interviews of Goering and Rubbentrop. Furthermore,
Hoover was a secret member of the fascist American First group, which was
dedicated to bring about Roosevelt's defeat.
The close association of the
Republican Party with the Nazis was confirmed in captured documents. In one
captured document written in anticipation of defeat the Nazis expressed hope
for a Republican victory so that they might achieve an "easy peace."
A small excerpt from the document in the appendix follows:
Right
now, the chances for a separate peace with the West are a little better,
especially if we succeed, through our propaganda campaign and our
confidential" channels, to convince the enemy that Roosevelt's policy of
"unconditional surrender" drives the German people towards Communism.
There
is great fear in the U.S.A. of Bolshevism. The opposition against Roosevelt's
alliance with Stalin grows constantly. Our chances for success are good, if we
succeed to stir up influential circles against Roosevelt's policy. This can be
done through clever pieces of information, or by references to unsuspicious
neutral ecclesiastical contact men.
We
have at our command in the United States efficient contacts which have been
carefully kept up even during the war. The campaign of hatred stirred up by
Roosevelt and the Jews against everything German has temporarily silenced the
pro-German bloc in the U.S.A. However, there is every hope that this situation
will be completely changed within a few months. If the Republicans succeed in
defeating Roosevelt in the coming presidential election, it would greatly
influence the American conduct of war towards us.
With the Battle of the Bulge
raging in Europe the Republican candidate, Dewey lashed out against Roosevelt,
that his call for unconditional surrender was prolonging the war and costing
American lives.
The Nazi involvement in the
1940 election was extensive and extended to congressional races. Evidence
gathered by Roosevelt's scheme to have British intelligence spy on Americans
also netted information about Roosevelt's political enemies. The evidence
confirms that seven U.S. senators and thirteen represenatives recieved campaign
contributions from the Nazis. Much of the isolation wing of congress was
directly finanaced by Berlin.119
From the evidence above the
Nazis were deeply involved in the political process within the United States
from at least 1932. However, the extent of that involvement is still shrouded
in fog. Somewhere in the vaults of the United State and England incriminating
files lie hidden that will expose the collaboration of many more individuals and
corporations with the Nazis." MORE AT: The White Rose
